This is an API built for a challenge. You may find instructions to run the api and the webApp locally.
Frontend and backend were built on different solutions beacause I want decoupled solutions, i.e. i didn't want the front end to be coupled to the FE, so maybe in a near future I could implemnet a new FrontEnd with a different technology
Locally you need to install Visual Studio , and .Net Core 7.0, SQL Server.
You can use In Memory Data or an Actual Database, by setting the key "UseDataBase" in the appsettings.json (in the BackEnd project) to either True or False.
This was added only for developing and testing purposes. If you use this approach, the data will not persist after you stop running the application, and will be resestablished to the same default values everytime the app is executed. Use this approach if you don't want to (or cannot) create a local database.
If you want to use the database you can Publish the database project in your local machine. SQL Server was the database engine chosen for this project. Note that a PostDeployment script will insert default Data.
Take into account that tha .sqlproj is independent from the dotnet solution.
You should run 2 projects: the API and the front-end. Both of them were developed with .Net Core 7.0. You should run both solutions. By running the Backend solution, you will see a swagger. By running the Web Application, you will see the home page (or the login page if you are not logged in yet)
You have 2 options.
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Open 2 visual studio instances and simply click on the button execute for each solution
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Use the terminal:
To build:
Open a terminal in ~/BackEnd and run the backend with the following command:
dotnet build
Open a terminal in ~/FrontEnd/WebApp and run the frontend with the following command:
dotnet build
To execute:
Open a terminal in ~/BackEnd/ChatRoom.Api and run the backend with the following command:
dotnet run --urls "http://0.0.0.0:5198;https://0.0.0.0:2701"
Open a terminal in ~/FrontEnd/WebApp/ChatBotWeb and run the frontend with the following command:
dotnet run --urls "http://0.0.0.0:5026;https://0.0.0.0:7100"